189: How to Lead People with Different Political Views than You
Your Virtual Upline Podcast
Bob Heilig
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We are smack dab in the middle of the craziness that is election season, and when someone shares opinions you passionately disagree with ... what will you do?
Over the next couple of weeks your social media is going to BLOW UP with people's opinions.
The big question though is..
Why do we feel so threatened when others have different political view than us?
And, why would it make us feel differently about them and respect them less?
Every one of us will always have different opinions politically.
But in every moment we also have the power to choose to act from a place of LOVE or FEAR.
We can either RESPOND or REACT.
However, what happens most of the time is we immediately REACT... And the more reacting we do, the less empowered we are.
In this episode, I'm going to show what it means to act from a place of LOVE.
Why, as leaders, we must seek to first UNDERSTAND before being UNDERSTOOD.
One of the most important qualities you will ever possess as a leader is your ability to lead and connect with people that are different from you.
It's about choosing LOVE even when it's difficult, frustrating, or inconvenient.
If you have questions, text me at (215) 608-1454, and let me know what do you need help with, what issues are your struggling, and what topics you want me to cover in future episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bob here and welcome back to the Your Virtual Upline Podcast where we give Network |
| 0:12.4 | marketers the mindset, strategies, and skills that you need |
| 0:17.2 | to build a business and life of your dreams. |
| 0:21.1 | Hey Bob here, welcome back to the show episode 189. Today we are going to tackle what I know to be a very sensitive hot button issue for many |
| 0:39.9 | of you and at the time of me recording this episode it is mid-October and we are about to enter into an election season. |
| 0:49.3 | We are already in the beginning stages of it and I know more than ever there's going to be a lot of |
| 0:58.1 | passionate people sharing their opinions and their thoughts and their beliefs on social media because isn't |
| 1:05.0 | that the place where we go and do those things and I know in this happening a lot of |
| 1:10.4 | times it begins to create issues for us in our business. |
| 1:14.0 | Specifically, how do we handle when the people that are around us that we love and |
| 1:20.0 | respect share different political views than us. |
| 1:24.2 | And here was the question. |
| 1:25.5 | One of the questions that I got that inspired this episode |
| 1:28.0 | was somebody reached out to me on Instagram |
| 1:30.7 | and said, hey Bob, what do I do? My upline is very vocal on social media |
| 1:36.7 | about her political views and they are in direct opposition of mine. And the problem that I'm having right now is I am finding it, |
| 1:45.3 | my opinion of her is changing. |
| 1:47.2 | So I'm finding it difficult to look at her the same way. |
| 1:50.1 | I'm kind of losing respect for her, |
| 1:52.3 | and I almost want to say something. I'm kind of losing respect for her and I almost want to say something I'm stuck I don't know |
| 1:55.8 | what to do I don't want our relationship to change and I thought what a good question |
| 2:01.0 | what a timely question and see this is more than just like your upline. |
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